anxious - Story 7667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman next to her was humming, seemingly unfazed. This did not help. Jennifer crossed her arms, trying to project an air of calm that she certainly did not feel.

Her thoughts raced. She played out every possible scenario in her head, each one more alarming than the last. She tried to slow down her thoughts, but they kept jumping from one fear to another.

She felt a hot flush on her face. Her breathing became more rapid. She started to fidget, tugging at her collar. Every creak of the elevator sent a jolt of fear through her.

She had to focus. She had to find a way to… manage this. But the thoughts kept racing, and there was nothing she could do to stop them.

Emotion: anxious

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion anxious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 anxious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the anxious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the anxious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.315
`😖`	0.302
`worse`	0.297
`😰`	0.285
`own`	0.267

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.441
`a`	-0.382
`de`	-0.365
`"`	-0.256
`happy`	-0.256